I’ve been using Sumatra PDF for a few years, and I love it.
However, I’m having troubles after I installed it on my new laptop. It crashes when I close it, from the menu or from the x on the right corner. I tried unistalling and reinstalling, tried an older version, and both 64bit and 32bit versions, but the results are the same.
I’m using Windows 10 64bit, and the Sumatra PDF version I tried is 3.1.2 (and 3.0).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.
Honore
A very small number of users have reported mixed crashes.
[LATER EDIT]
To save reading all the details below this turned out to be a keyboard manager (Keyman) issue. If you are using the same product check its version number and skip to the end few posts.
If you dont have Keyman it may be worth reading some of the troubleshooting steps in this thread.
One user found “Only the “SumatraPDF-prerelease-10638.exe” works without crashes.”
That version has been replaced but you could try the latest and see if it helps.
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease.html
Usually it rooted in poor hardware drivers (perhaps a graphics driver application) one long investigation is described here https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1061
Thank you for your quick response.
I tried the prerelease version, but it crashes also (both 32bit and 64bit versions).
Thank you anyway.
Any errors displayed? If the app hangs then see if WhatIsHang displays anything useful, otherwise in case of a crash see if AppCrashView and WinCrashReport have anything to report.
Thank you for this.
What happens in my case is that when I close SumatraPDF, the SumatraPDF window closes but a little window pops up. It says: “SumatraPDF crashed (on top) We’re sorry, SumatraPDF crashed.” When I hit the OK button on this little window, it hangs, i.e. no response.
I tried AppCrashView and WinCrashReport. The latter did not give me anything. AppCrashView spat out a long report (which I don’t know what it means). Is there something in particular I should be looking at in this report?
Thank you for your help!
You can select the Sumatra-specific reports from AppCrashView and WinCrashReport and copy-paste them here. Hopefully we might be able to glean some useful info. from them.
Also, what anti-malware/anti-virus are you using? Try disabling that temporarily and see if it makes any difference.
Thank you again. I’m using Avast anti-virus (free), but disabling it didn’t have any effect.
The AppCrashView gave the following report for the crash of SumatraPDF. (Nothing in the WinCrashReport.) Sorry that some lines come up in Japanese, as my Windows 10 OS is the Japanese version. (I used the regular English version of AppCrashView, but still.)
Thank you for your help.
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Ok, nothing in that report jumps out at me right away as the culprit so try adding an exception to Avast for the entire Sumatra installation folder, for example C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\*. Afterwards preferably reboot Windows and immediately try running Sumatra.
If it still crashes, try rebooting into safe mode and then immediately try running Sumatra.
Peter and @honorew
It may be the closing of the settings file which would likely be in the appdata folder under a potentially Japanese name (and registry)
It would be interesting to know if using a portable copy which keeps its settings in the same folder as exe also crashes
Honorew can you please see if this version works without crashing https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/dl/SumatraPDF-3.1.2.zip try it in a folder that is not within your user area I suggest c:\testing or similar
Thank you both for your replies.
Adding an exception to Avast did not have any effect. However, when booting in safe mode, SumatraPDF did not crash!
The other suggestion by GitHubRulesOK, i.e. running the portable version from c:\testing did not change matters and crashed.
So, only safe mode worked.
(Unrelated, but it took me a bit of search on the net to do safe mode boot in Windows10!)
Anticipating that is precisely why I provided links to instructions for both adding an exception to Avast as well as rebooting into safe mode with Win10. 
All right, which means there’s definitely some program/service that’s auto-running at startup/logon and is interfering with Sumatra. What are the programs shown in Task Manager’s Startup tab?
Is “Keyman Engine” required? Can you try disabling or temporarily uninstalling it to see if that makes any difference?
Alright. Your guess was correct. “Keyman” is a keyboard utility, and when it’s disabled, SumatraPDF closed without crashing. I tested it several times, and when I have Keyman running, it crashes, and disabled it and it doesn’t crash. So it looks like this is the culprit.
Keyman is a keyboard unitily by SIL (https://keyman.com/). I need this all the time, so disabling it every time I use Sumatra is unrealistic. Then it occurred to me that I installed the latest version of it in my laptop, on which I was having issues with Sumatra crashing. That didn’t happen in my older PC but I was using an older version of Keyman. So I reinstalled an older version (ver. 8) of Keyman, and Sumatra seems to work fine without crashing. The version I was having trouble with was 10 (their latest now is ver. 11), so whatever change they made, it caused Sumatra to crash. I would prefer to use the latest version, but for now, not causing Sumatra to crash is preferable.
Thank you all for your help. This is a great community!
Thanks for that I have raised a comment as a duplicate (here we prefer to keep # of issues down by tagging as duplicates) https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman/issues/1723
You may wish to raise your own new issue in your own right in which case you may get a direct update from them as to progress
Glad we were able to pinpoint the culprit. It’s not entirely clear from your comment as to whether you’ve also specifically tested v11 of Keyman. Apparently v11 also causes other apps like FreeFileSync to crash on exit so presumably the bug persists, but it never hurts to double-check with your specific use case before adding your voice to that GitHub issue.
Edit: There is a Test for conflicting applications when Keyman Desktop starts option in Keyman - have you tried it?
If it’s not enabled already then enable it, quit the app, launch Sumatra and then launch Keyman - if you’re lucky perhaps it will automatically detect a conflict and add an exclusion for Sumatra or something.
The crash occurred with both ver. 10 and 11 of Keyman. I added that on the GitHub thread.
I didn’t know about this “Test for conflicting app” in Keyman. I’ll try that and see what happens. Thank you!
“Test for conflicting applications” did not change matters. I had a response on GitHub, though the response was that the crash could not be reproduced.
Interesting. Well, if anyone can figure it out it should be Marc, since he created the program and has been working on it for the past more than quarter of a century! Do let us know if/when the issue is resolved, or if any Sumatra-specific help is required to do so.
Thanks to @honorew and the staff (especially Marc Durdin) at Keyman (SIL International) this issue appears to have be resolved and in progress for closure with their next release.
Hi everyone, thank you for your help in tracing this issue. I am happy to report that build 11.0.1359.0 of Keyman is now available which should resolve the problem, at https://keyman.com/downloads/
Hi Marc,
I tried 11.0.1359.0 but I encountered a trouble in installation. The error message said something about dll missing (I didn’t write it down and couldn’t copy it). Could you check? Thank you!
Honoré
